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Questions tagged [realvnc]

The 'realvnc' tag is for reporting problems with the Real VNC product, which supports remote interaction with a desktop. Please specify your operating system, Real VNC server and/or viewer versions, and any other relevant environment details.

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TigerVNC viewer: no matching security types

I'm trying to remote control the desktop of a Raspberry Pi (Raspbian Jessie) from a Samsung Chromebook (ARM Arch Linux). The VNC server running on the Pi is RealVNC. The VNC viewer on the Chromebook is TigerVNC I'm getting the following error when I…
rodrunner
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RealVNC Viewer: How can I escape from the remote desktop screen by using keys?

I often use RealVNC Viewer to connect to remote VNC desktops served by RealVNC Server, Tight VNC Server, X11VNC... etc. When connected, all pressed hotkeys are passed to (captured by) the remote desktop, and that is OK for me, but I then need use…
Sopalajo de Arrierez
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Alt+Tab when switching between windows on a RealVNC client and the VNC server

When using RealVNC's VNC Viewer Enterprise Edition on Windows XP, to connect to an RHEL machine running a GNOME2 session, I have configured the VNC client to turn on the "Pass special keys directly to server" option. This means that when the client…
ArjunShankar
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How can I set the password for the RealVNC service?

Just install RealVNC free edition and I can't connect when it's running as a service because there is no password set. When I run "VNC Server (User Mode)" I can connect fine. How can I set the password for the service? Googling didn't turn up any…
Lee Tickett
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How do I prevent VNC from automatically coping selected text?

Whenever I select any text the text is immediately copied to the clipboard without me explicitly issuing copy text command. How do I fix this bug or feature? I am using RealVNC client. The server is running IceWM.
AppleGrew
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How to prevent RealVNC from scaling the display based on windows scaling option?

RealVNC does not present the window to to actual size but present a size computed based on 'scale' factor set in windows. For example say my display resolution is 1920x1080. And my remote PC is also set to 1920x1080. Then the expectation is when I…
Akilan
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How do I start/restart RealVNC Enterprise Server for Mac via the command line?

How do I start/restart RealVNC Enterprise Server for Mac via the command line? Perhaps also how do I tell (via command line, whether RealVNC Enterprise Server is running or not)
Greg
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How to VNC to Mac OS X Lion?

How can we VNC to Mac OS X Lion to use screen sharing? RealVNC for Windows connects and shows a lock screen, but I cannot click or type a password. What clients will work now?
user16659
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VNC - two users at same time

I've set up VNC on my desktop (Linux) and I'm not sure how to configure it so that there can be two users using the desktop at the same time? Is VNC the correct tool for this or will it only allow one user?
Colin747
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how to login to RealVNC automatically(without giving user/password every time)

any idea how to login to RealVNC automatically(without giving user/password every time). like how we can login to putty: putty.ext username@11.222.43.64 -pw password
Sun
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VNC Address Book - Window Invisible? Working as intended?

I have VNC Server and VNC Viewer on the same PC with Windows 7 Ultimate x64. Is VNC Address Book supposed to have a main application window? I can't tell if this is bugged or working as intended. When I start VNC Address book, it creates an item…
user1445967
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VNC Viewer with Username for OS X? (KVMoIP)

A company gave me KVMoIP VNC details to directly connect to a Linux server which is crashing. The details look like follows: Device: http://x.x.x.x/ Username: user123 Password: *** I've tried every possible VNC client to connect it, but I…
kenorb
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VNC viewer does not refresh/update the screen

I have VNC Server installed on Windows 8 Desktop Machine. I havw VNC Viewer Installed on Windows 7 Laptop, I don't know what I am doing wrong but my VNC Viewer won't update/refresh the screen after I click something in VNC Viewer. I have to open…
user206168
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What does a display "Mirror Driver" do?

I have two mirror drivers showing up in Device Manager (in Windows), from RealVNC and UltraVNC. What exactly does a mirror/hook display driver (adapter?) do? I'm curious about the actual mechanism(s) of functionality, and why a regular display…
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VNC server is running but I cannot connect to it using VNC viewer

I have installed VNC server on CentOS 5.8 and it is running, but I cannot connect to it using VNC viewer. I get the following error message: connect: Connection timed out(10060) What could be the problem?
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